Die Hard is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever. All five films revolve around the main character of John McClane, a New York CityLos Angeles police detective. The films have grossed a combined USD 1. 4 billion worldwide.
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Die Hard is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever. All five films revolve around the main character of John McClane, a New York CityLos Angeles police detective. The films have grossed a combined USD 1. 4 billion worldwide. The first film begins on Christmas Eve when McClane comes to reunite with separated wife Holly in Los Angeles. It was released on July 15, 1988 to positive reviews and grossed USD 140. 8 million worldwide. In the finale, McClane shoots the terrorist leader, Hans Gruber, out of the window to fall thirty stories. The second film takes place two years after the first, again in Washington, D. C. The fourth film, which was released as Die Hard 4. 0 outside North America, takes place on Independence Day, over a decade after Die Hard with a Vengeance. The fifth and final film is set a few years later, mostly in Moscow, Russia and Chernobyl, Ukraine. It is released on May 19, 1995 to mixed reviews andgrossed USD 366. 1 million worldwide, and on June 27, 2007 to positive Reviews and Grossed USD 383. 5 million worldwide,. McClane saves the pair at the unexpected arrival of a CIA operative trying to get close to a high-ranking Russian official. When he arrives at the Moscow courthouse for Jack, Russian terrorists bomb the building and Jack escapes with imprisoned ex-billionaire Yuri Komarov.
In an intense car chase McClane pursues the pair to a safe house in Moscow. McClane holds them off and escapes with Jack and Irina Irina, the daughter of Komarov’s henchmen, led by his main enforcer Alik Alik. The film ends with McClane holding them off, without Irina on the side of her father after he betrays them to Alik, who is killed by the main henchman. The last film, Die Hard 5, was released in 2008 and has grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide and is the most successful action film of all time. It follows McClane as he tries to save his estranged son John, Jr. from the clutches of Russian terrorists. The final film ends on July 4, 2010, and is set over a year after the events of Die Hard With a Vengeance, in New York, where McClane is separated from his wife, suspended from the police force, and a borderline alcoholic. The FBI reveal Simon is the brother of Hans Grubers, killed in the first film, and McClane learns revenge is a cover story for robbing the New York Federal Reserve. The movie ends with a shootout between McClane and Simon at the Canada–US border, and the FBI reveal that Simon is a terrorist mastermind who threatens to blow up various locations in the city unless McClane will play his twisted version of Simon Says, riddles and challenges. The third film is released in 2011 and takes place over a ten-year period after the last film.
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